Innovating For Success (Part 2)

October 12, 2011

I am an information addict. Sometimes, I’m a sucker for the latest and juiciest gossips too.  🙂 I’m mindful that the world around me is changing faster than ever. That’s why, I want to be constantly updated. Economic and business cycles are shortening in the new digital world. Products and services are becoming irrelevant, uncompetitive […]

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Living Moment (Part 1)

October 12, 2011

I watched the movie ‘The Sorcerer And The White Snake.’ Although it was based on a Chinese legend, the director had taken more than the usual poetic license to modify the story to achieve box-office success. There was a scene that stuck out in my mind. The sorcerer had done everything to destroy the love […]

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Innovating For Success (Part 1)

October 11, 2011

I read with great interest the challenging journey that Professor Daniel Schechtman took to win the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He won the prize for the discovery of quasicrystals. In a nutshell, it is a study of how atoms can be packed together in a non-regular and non-repeating pattern to form a solid material. […]

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Touching Moments (Part 2)

October 11, 2011

I love nuts – all kinds of nuts. Maybe, that’s why I’m such a nutcase.  🙂 I wrote this note after eating a packet of Pistachios. Less salt recipe – but still fattening.  🙂 A moment ago, I dropped one of the nuts. Without hesitation, I picked it up from the floor, brushed it and […]

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Building On Friendships (Part 3)

October 10, 2011

I met Peter, my best friend in Primary School. We spent some time chatting about the great time we had. Peter and I were in the same class from Primary 1 to Primary 6. He was also my neighbor and he used to stay about 200m from my house. Our parents had to work very […]

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Touching Moments

October 10, 2011

I had lunch at a foodcourt and took a seat near an elderly man. I gave him a friendly smile. He gave me a blank look. A few minutes later, a lady came and sat beside him. She paid close attention to him and offered heartwarming care and concern. I complimented her, “You did a […]

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Building Friendships (Part 2)

October 9, 2011

I have been encouraging my daughters to be like my father and me who have a wide circle of friends. To encourage them to do so, I told them that their daddy can go to almost every public place and would be able to find a friend. Fortunately, almost every time that I was tested, […]

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Making The Right Investment

October 9, 2011

“Real estate investment is the worst investment.” These strong words were spoken to me by one of the foremost experts in financial investments. In fact, he once ran one of the largest fund management companies in the world. Legend has it that between him and his partner, they almost brought England to her knees. They […]

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Building Friendships (Part 1)

October 8, 2011

I had a few touching moments – all within the span of a day. That morning, I almost choked on my coffee when I saw a familiar face on the obituary column. It was a friend that shared some of my most memorable childhood memories. William Goh, one of my friends in Primary School, had […]

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Paying Tribute To David Loo

October 8, 2011

I want to pay tribute to David Loo, a man to whom I owe a lifetime of gratitude If it was not for him and his invaluable influence on my life, I may not be who I am today. My life might have literally gone down the drain a long time ago. I first met […]

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